Jean Val Jean:

EMMANUEL DELCOUR or Jean Val Jean, who has joined as a students on Bravo's Chef Academy has a colourful past. The French origin actor is a prominent porn star and is now aiming to cash on his popularity to compete on the Bravo's Chef Academy, a show which teaches non-chefs to to cook and compete.

The fact that Jean Val Jean was is a porn star has forced some critics to argue that Bravo's Chef Academy was trying to capitalizing on his colourful but pornographic past. In 2007, JeanVal Jean won the AVN Male Foreign Performer of the Year award.

He is also known in the Hollywood for low-budget thriller 'Immortally Yours/Kiss of the Vampire'. Jean Val Jean also acted in television show Keeping Up with the Kardashian.